Garment hanger



May 31,1949. FERNALD 2,471,944

GARMENT HANGER Filed April 4, 1947 f8 7 6' /2 '5 O 4 s INVENTOR Harman Erna/0 ATTORNEY Patented May 31, 1949 UNETED STATES PATENT OFFIC 2,471,944 GARMENT HANGER Herman H. Fernald, Wichita, Kans. Application April 4, 1947, Serial No. 739,291

2 Claims.

This invention relates to a garment hanger and it is primarily an object of the invention to provide a device of this kind which can be employed for the suspension of a plurality of articles and ,in a manner whereby any one article can be sestruction and in the combination and arrange-- ment of the several parts of my improved garment hanger, whereby certain advantages are attained, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order that my invention may be better understood, I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure l is a View in perspective illustrating a garment hanger constructed in accordance with an embodiment of the invention and in applied position; and

Figure 2 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional View taken substantially on the line 2-2 of Figure 1, parts being in elevation.

In the embodiment of the invention D denotes a door although it is to be understood that any other supporting means may be employed to which the improved hanger may be attached.

As illustrated in the accompanying drawings, B denotes a bracket body consisting of the two sections X and Y. Each of these sections X and Y includes an outer face wall I of suitable configuration but which is formed to provide an upper substantially straight edge and a substantially straight rear edge, both of which being in perpendicular relation.

The upper straight edges of the side walls I of the sections are defined by the inwardly disposed flanges 2 in the asembly of the sections X and Y and are in contact. The rear straight edges of the sections X and Y are defined by the inwardly disposed flanges 3 and the outer marginal portions of these flanges 3 are provided with interfitting tongues 4 and recesses 5, whereby the sections X and Y are assembled in desired efiective relation resulting in a hollow body, the lower face of which being open.

These assembled sections X and Y are maintained in assembly by the holding members 6 herein disclosed as headed shanks, each of which being freely disposed through the wall I of one 2 of the sections and threading into the wall I of the second section.

In mounting the body B upon the door D or other desired supporting surface, one of the sections as X is suitably secured to the support D by the suitable fastening elements such as flat headed screws or nails which are passed through the opening I provided in the rear flange 3 and preferably closely adjacent to the tongues 4. After this section X has been mounted, the second section is operatively assembled therewith in a manner which is believed to be readily apparent.

At predetermined points spaced therealong, the flanges 2 of the members X and Y are provided with the recesses or notches B which provide openings through each of which freely passes a short lateral extension 9 of an elongated supporting rod or member I 0. This extension 9 is disposed within its opening when the rod or member II) is substantially horizontally disposed and an inner or free extremity 9 is continued by an outwardly directed lug I I substantially parallel to the member or bar 9 for contact from below with a flange 2 to assure the rod or member It being effectively maintained in its horizontal or working position. However, when not in use, the member It] may be swung upwardly into a substantially vertical position and allowed to drop down into a vertical suspended position as illustrated in Figure 1 so as to be out of the way when not in use.

The extent of downward movement of a rod or member I0 through its opening is limited by a lateral extension I2 at the outer or free end portion of the bar or member Ill and which extension is disposed in a direction to allow the extension or holding arm to engage an adjacent member or bar ID from above. This extension or arm I2 is preferably disposed on a curvature of predetermined radius with its inbow downwardly directed.

As is particularly illustrated in Figure 1, adjacent bars or members It successively decrease in length so that each of the bars may be readily engaged at its outer portion with the bar nearest and inwardly thereof. The longest bar or mem-.

ber II] is innermost and this bar has its outer or free extremity fitting within a socket It provided in an outstanding bracket arm I5. This arm I5, as herein shown, carries an outstanding foot I6 which has direct contact with the door or other supporting surface and is held thereto by screw I! or the like, as may be preferred.

From the foregoing description considered in connection with the accompanying drawings, it is believed to be obvious that an article suspended on any one of the bars or members III may be readily removed when desired without interference with the articles or other members or bars l and it is also believed to be obvious that when any one of the bars or members is not in use it may be readily suspended in substantially vertical position.

When s0 suspended, the lateral extension or arm l2 contacts from above with the top surface of the body B and such extension or arm 12 is of such dimensions as to not pass down through an opening aiforded by the registering notches 8.

While the device as herein comprised is one that is particularly advantageous for use in the anchoring of garments such as skirts and trousers, yet it is to be stated that it can be employed with equal facility in connection with towels, diapers 'or other kindred articles.

It is also to be pointed out that when the device is used as an anchor for skirts or trousers, it performs its function in a manner to prevent the garments from wrinkling.

From the foregoing description it is thought to be obvious that a garment hanger constructed in accordance with my invention is particularly well adapted for use by reason of the convenience and having a top extending horizontally from said surface, said top having a row of spaced openings, a plurality of bars, a second bracket secured to said surface in spaced relation to the bracket body and including an arm extending from said surface a materially shorter distance than the said top 4 of the bracket body, one only of said bars having one end engaged in the opening of the bracket body nearest to the supporting surface. and having its other end secured to said arm, the remaining bars each having one end pivoted in one of said openings for swinging movement in a horizontal plane relative to the supporting surface, and means at the other end of each of the said otherbars for successively detachably coupling the said other bars together in a group and in spaced parallel relation and for detachably coupling the innermost one of such group with the said one bar.

2. A hanger of the character described in claim 1 in which all of said bars are of progressively decreasing length from the said one bar outwardly and the said means at the other end of each of the said other bars comprises an angularly directed terminal portion of the bar shaped to provide a hook adapted to engage over the top of the next longer bar.

HERMAN H. FERNALD.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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